56 responses to “Musical palate cleanser, it was 50 years ago today edition”

I’ve been re listening to some of my old Beatles and “I saw her standing there” from “Please Please Me” was one of the best debut songs ever, right up there with “Good Times, Bad Times” from Led Zeppelin 1. And to think 2 years later they had “Tomorrow Never Knows”, 4 years later “Sgt. Peppers” and gone in 7. Amazing work and creativity.

It’s hard for people to appreciate how seminal a deal A Hard Day’s Night was. The album was the first by a major pop act that was entirely self-penned. And there’s no telling how many bands the movie inspired.

“A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed.”
Methinks the good Senator is being polite with you.

There is an art to cutting the flat top. My boys use to wear them when they played soccer. They played together and were quite serious about their look. When they were in HS they wanted long hair. My brother in law reprimanded me about it once. Said they were going to become undisciplined. I just laughed that off. When they got to college they wanted wore a buzz cut. I don’t get it?

Superb comments by WCobbDawg and Twistification! In the book Outliers there are a few pages devoted to them and the time this group spent in clubs building their craft. Remember listening to them in Reed Hall and looking down into Sanford Stadium. Love music and UGA!

I liked Harrison a lot too. Probably not for the same reasons as you though. He was incredibly talented and he could play complicated guitar cords/riffs. As a jr high and hs garage band musician he frustrated the hell out of me. An amazing talent stuck between John and Paul. Not enough of his writing got out. Leo Kottke was another favorite of mine. After watching him at the the Georgia Theater I put my guitar in its case and didn’t touch it for a month. There is talent and then there is genius and I was no genius.

I’m surprised the Senator’s mom wouldn’t let him go see the Beatles in 65 in Atlanta. Wasn’t he about 30 by then? ;-) I hear he was the model for the Chaz character in The Wedding Crashers (but he doesn’t really care for meatloaf that much)

A few thoughts: During the War of 1812, the British burned down the US Capitol. The only battle the US won was after the war ended,,,, at New Orleans. I, too, was, and am, a Rolling Stones fan, but the Beatles body of work is unsurpassed in respect to the the incredible volume of work they produced in such a short time.

What … I thought the Revolution ended with the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” at Concord Bridge! You mean there was more? Oh, yeah, they didn’t sign the Independence thing until the next year … it was over then, though, right?

Bloviation for the Dawgnation

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“I didn’t know I got criticism,” Richt quipped, feigning incredulousness. “It’s just the nature of the beast. If you can’t take criticism, then you shouldn’t coach.” -- AJ-C, 7/21/15